Actually, this one was an easy one for me. Last week, when trying to figure out Harry Atwood, I stumbled across John Moisant. Most of the first photos I saw of him were of him with his head turned. As I kept looking for additional photos of John Moisant to see if it was the mystery person, I saw this one with the cat on his shoulder. I just had to look at my wrong guesses from last week to see which one it was.

I was joking about the cat's name on my first post, and then I read a Wikipedia article about Moisant and they mention that he took his cat, Mademoisell Fifi, on a flight across the English Channel in 1910. This could very well be Fifi.

The international airport of New Orleans, Louisiana was originally named Moisant Field in John Moisant's honor, though it has since been renamed Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.

The airport retains its "MSY" identifier, derived from the airport's origins as "Moisant Stock Yards" the name given to the land where Moisant's fatal airplane crash occurred, and upon which the airport was later built.

About Me

I grew up in West Texas, and could not wait to get away. I got away, and went to the University of Texas, and then on to Stanford. I saw the world, and decided what I really wanted was to be in West Texas. So here I am, right back where I started. I had it all, and found it was not that great.

I have been an avid collector of old photographs and documents for over 30
years. The photographs on this site are derived from material I have collected
over the years. Some came from old family albums, some from material I bought at
flea markets over the years, and some from government archives of public domain
images, including the US Library of Congress, and the National Archives. We
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